The following gig list was compiled from several sources including advertisements in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Geoff Docherty’s book (A Promoter’s Tale) and various band gig diaries. 1965 March 1965…
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Mayfair Ballroom Gigs – 1969 to 1972
The following gig list was compiled from several sources including advertisements in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Geoff Docherty’s book (A Promoter’s Tale) and various band gig diaries. 1969 January 1969…
Club A’Gogo Gig Dates (1965 to 1968)
The following gig list was compiled from a variety of sources including advertisements in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle and the Courier (the weekly newspaper of Newcastle University) plus various band…
Club A’Gogo Gig Dates (1962 to 1964)
The following gig list was compiled from a variety of sources including advertisements in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle and the Courier (the weekly newspaper of Newcastle University) plus various band…
Quay Club Gig Dates (1965 to 1967)
The original Quay Club situated on Side, Newcastle opened on 17th December 1965 and ran for around two and a half years until July 1969. For the first two weeks,…
Quay Club Gig Dates (1968 to 1969)
The original Quay Club situated on Side, Newcastle opened on 17th December 1965 and ran for around two and a half years until July 1969. For the first two weeks,…
’65
In 1965, the UK charts were dominated by British bands and artists. A few years earlier it was mostly US singles that charted in the UK. In the spring, an…
’66
US soul music continued to thrive in the UK charts in 1966 leading local bands to add songs by James Brown, Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett to their set lists.…
’67
1967 became known as the ‘Summer of Love’. Not so much because that year saw a revolutionary new movement, but because that was when the media came to identify and…
’68
After a year of flower power, love-ins and psychedelic happenings, 1968 had a bit more of a down-to-earth feel about it with a slight revival of rock ‘n roll and…